Is Volume XIII of the publications of the Minnesota Historical Society Collections, and is by James H. Baker, A. M., who has occupied several political positions in his state and has been closely associated with the men whose lives he has sketched. Mr. Baker is almost eighty years of age, and he has personal acquaintance with the governors from Ramsey, the first territorial governor in 1849, up to the present incumbent. Mr. Baker’s sketches of Gorman, territorial governor from 1853 to 1857; Sibley, first state governor from 1858 to 1860; Swift, third state governor from 1863 to 1864; McGill, 1887 to 1889; and Clough, 1895 to 1899; men of Irish extraction, are thorough and entertaining. [Illustration: HON. T. ST. JOHN GAFFNEY, Of New York. Consul-General to Dresden, Germany. Vice-President of the Society for Germany. ] TRANSACTIONS OF THE KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1907–1908: This is Volume X of the publications of the Society, and is edited by the Secretary, George W. Martin. Fifty-six essays by nearly as many writers are presented. Several of the productions are composed of separate papers, such as the collections of biographical sketches of members of early legislatures, etc. A wealth of original material, well worth the notice of historians outside of the state of Kansas, is revealed, and forty-eight maps, plans, portraits and landscapes illustrate the text. HISTORY OF THE CITY OF VINCENNES, 1702–1901: An important contribution to the local history of Indiana, and a well written and authentic account of the oldest town in that state. By Henry S. Cauthorn. HISTORY OF WORCESTER: A well written, authentic history of the Massachusetts town in the War of the Rebellion. By A. P. Marvin. WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY HISTORY: An account of the regiment from 1861 to 1865. By Edwin E. Bryant. Professor Edward Channing of Harvard University has two volumes of a History of the United States already issued of a series of eight volumes. The title of Volume I is “The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000 to 1660”; Volume II, “A Century of Colonial History, 1660 to 1760.” The titles to Volumes III and IV, not yet issued, are “The American Revolution, 1760–1789,” and “Federalists and Republicans, 1789–1812,” while the titles to Volumes V to VIII have not as yet been selected. “Dr. John McLoughlin, the Victor of Oregon,” an authoritative biographical sketch, with abundant documents, by Frederick V. Holman. “A Documentary Source-Book of American History,” by Professor William MacDonald of Brown University, author of “Select Charters,” “Select Documents,” and “Select Statutes,” etc. The work is in one volume, and includes all the most important documents contained in Professor MacDonald’s large works, but in some cases shortened by immaterial omissions. GENERAL HISTORICAL ITEMS.